Has anyone been listening to this today? They are starting to turn on each other big time, and Limbaugh is having a hard time defending it.
I guess the basic premise is that if you dont support the Republican juggernaut, you are a "Cut and Runner". The sloganeering is mezmerizing.
I didnt listen to the whole show (it's physically impossible for me to do as I would become violently ill), but it seemed the entire last hour today was dedicated to attacking fellow Conservatives!! They are starting to raise the flag of defeat, and turn on their own.
Limbaugh's only argument appears to be "do you think Nancy Pelosi is going to be better". And the response he is getting from his Conservative (facist) cult following, is a resounding "YES". She will be better, and the Republicans need to learn a lesson.
I found this editorial describing the "Cut and Run Conservative". Give me a K&R.
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/valois/061019snip...
"And just what is a "cut-and-run conservative"? From what I can tell, this label applies to anyone who holds the (to Rush) illogical opinion that Republicans ought to behave like Republicans, and that if they don't, there isn't much use in voting them into office again. There are evidently — gasp! — voters who want their elected representatives to represent them, and who refuse to declare the mere holding of an office on the part of someone whose use of that office is despicable a "victory" in and of itself. Even among those who chuckle at the EIB Network's clever parodies, there are apparently some people who don't consider the ideological suicide currently being committed by American culture to be a laughing matter after all. And despite being made the butt of that network's jokes myself, I am proud to declare myself one of them.
It is a little bewildering to be called a "cut-and-run conservative" all of a sudden, but then again, I was never totally clear on how those who believe what I do came to be called "conservatives" in the first place. Last time I checked, we were just Americans — people who, despite differences that ran less deep, were bonded nonetheless by a national identity springing from the Declaration of Independence and its enumeration of humanity's basic, God-given rights. When certain groups in our society began to depart from this fundamental recognition, evidently those who wanted to conserve it became known as "conservatives."
Now we find — as we have long suspected — that Mr. Limbaugh does believe that bedrock American principle is just another political football. Isn't that clearly implied, when "victory" is defined as keeping one party in power, regardless of how that power is (or isn't) being used? In openly embracing such a viewpoint, Mr. Limbaugh has departed from the very meaning of the movement of which he has become the undisputed mouthpiece. It's a shame that the Institute has become so advanced in its conservative studies that it has detached itself from the basics. Better (I submit) to be a cut-and-run conservative than not to be conservative at all!
Rush says that those of us who don't want to go on being a football-kicking Charlie Brown to the Republican leadership's Lucy have been duped by the media. He says he has not accomplished anything in nearly two decades, if his own audience can still so easily have the wool pulled over its collective eyes. He doesn't understand how his own passionate commitment to the conservative cause can apparently be going unrequited."
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